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Spray-flavoured pineapple

4th January 201520th December 2018 Chapter 2 / Case studies / Pesticide (ab)use
Doug Specht

Doug Specht

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Chapter 2

  • Immediate causes of the food crisis
    • Immediate causes of the food crisis
    • Crude oil price and food price index, 2006 – 2009
    • Rice price, El Salvador
  • The effects – hunger and malnutrition
    • Hunger in Central America
    • Nicaragua’s Zero Hunger Programme
    • Historic moment in Costa Rican labour history
    • The return of hunger to Central America? It never went away.
    • Hunger haunts Honduras
  • On food security and food sovereignty
    • Definitions of food security and food sovereignty
    • GMOs in food aid to Central America
    • “Stop talking politics”
    • GMOs in Honduras and El Salvador
    • La Vía Campesina
    • Seguridad alimentaria en Panamá
    • Food security in Panamá
    • Hondurans Reject Handing Over Land To Private Capital
    • One in three children in Costa Rica live in poverty – Unicef
    • Food insecurity increases in the Northern Triangle of Central America due to the pandemic
    • La Via Campesina and the Global Struggle for Food Sovereignty
    • Notes on food security issues in El Salvador in 2023
  • The long term origins of the food crisis
    • Famine and Hunger Devastate Guatemala …, Again The Pathological Interdependence of Feast and Famine in the Global “Free Trade” Economic Order
    • Solidarismo
    • JFC: new union-buster on the block: how solidarismo operates
    • Effects of Costa Rica’s Seed Law
    • US interferes in El Salvador’s seed distribution practices
  • Case studies
      • Tropical Fruits
        • The growth of pineapples in Costa Rica
        • Importance of Costa Rican pineapples in key European markets, 2008
        • Pineapples supplanting bananas in Costa Rica
        • Gangster tactics against the unions in the pineapple industry
        • ANEXCO harasses and fires union members
        • Freedom and fairness for Fyffes workers
        • Historic moment in Costa Rican labour history
        • Costa Rica: the country that turns its back on the consequences of pineapple cultivation
        • Alarm as devastating banana fungus reaches the Americas
        • Serious abuses of labour rights in Costa Rica and Honduras
        • Cocapples anyone?
        • Banana prices have always been too low
        • Supermarket banana pricing policies
      • Pesticide (ab)use
        • Spray-flavoured pineapple
        • Pesticide (ab)use on Costa Rica’s plantations – video by Jan Nimmo
        • Water contamination from pineapple production in Costa Rica
        • Nemagon and DBCP
        • Pesticides in Costa Rica’s banana zones seriously affect pregnant women
        • Industrial farming methods spell damaging dust storms for Leon and Chinandega
        • Agrotoxics and Monocultivation: their impact on the health of the Salvadoran population
        • Caso Agrotoxicos y Monocultivo, Su Impacto en la Salud de la Poblacion Salvdorena
        • Dirty Pineapples in Costa Rica
        • Concerns raised about pesticides in Costa Rica
        • Environmental Racism? Pesticide banned in UK and EU shipped in vast quantities to Costa Rica.
      • Sugar Cane
        • Sugar cane production and the CKDnT epidemic
        • News of the CKDnt epidemic – and PREP
        • New film shows toll of heat stress on workers, plus world-leading protections developed in Nicaragua
      • Coffee
        • Growing Coffee without Endosulfan
        • Nicaraguan coffee farmers seek creative solutions to drought, climate change
      • Organic cultivation and permaculture
        • Number of organic farms in Central America, 2008
        • Permaculture in El Salvador
        • The Ecological Association of Permaculturalists of Suchitoto (AEPS)
        • [Video]: The Ecological Association of Permaculturalists of Suchitoto (AEPS)
        • [PPT]: The Ecological Association of Permaculturalists of Suchitoto (AEPS)
        • IFAD’s conclusions from evidence of organic farming in Central America
        • “To grow organic is to think different”
        • Agroecology in Nicaragua: transforming the way people live and their relationship to the land
        • Agroforestry Land Restoration Technique Improves Food Security In Honduras
      • Fair Trade
        • The principles behind the practice of fair trade in agricultural products
        • Who Certifies the Certifiers? Retailers put Faith in Rainforest Alliance
        • The rise of Rainforest Alliance
      • Palm Oil
        • Palm oil production in Honduras
        • Protests over Palm Oil Sourcing in Guatemala
  • Prospects
    • Honduras, Ethiopia and the crazy logic of food supply
    • New Costa Rican Law allows workers to be reinstated quickly
    • The European Union authorises the sale of campesino seeds
    • ¡La Unión Europea autoriza la venta de semillas campesinas!
    • The Rights of Small Farmers
    • Ostrich farming in Belize?
    • Seed production in Guna Yala – A challenge with COVID

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